Interchangeable road-sign



A. w; BUSS. v v INTERCHANGEABLE ROAD SIGN. APPLICATION FILED NOV- 3.1919.

' 1,343,247. Patented June 15,1920.

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ADOLPH WALTER BUSS, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

. INTERCHANGEABLE ROAD-SIGN.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patgnted June 15, 1920.

Application filed November 3, 1919. Serial No. 335,457.-

readily erected at the forks of a road or at intersections of roads or in other places where it is desired to indicate direction, and which is designed to be readily taken down and compactly packed for storage or shipment.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side view of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a front View of one of the sectional posts;

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the top section of one of the posts detached partly broken away and Fig. 4: is a side view of the same.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 5 designates a sign board preferably of arrow shape and made of any suitable material such as pressed steel. The edges of the sign board are rolled or otherwise reinforced at its edges as at 6.

A pair of sectional tubular posts 7 each comprising top and bottom sections 8 and 9 respectively and a base 10 are employed for supporting the sign board. The top sections 8 are of peculiar shape being formed with a tubular portion 11 at their lower ends of slightly smaller diameter than the diameter of sections 9 and adapted to telescope within the latter. The upper ends of the sections are flattened or cut away as at 12 and the intermediate portions of the sections are greatly enlarged as at 13 for a purpose about to be described.

In practice the sign board is suitably secured to the flat portions 12 of the top sections 8 by screws, rivets or the like 14 and the tubular portions 8 are then inserted or telescoped within sections 9. The enlarged or bulged portions 13 perform the double function of supporting the sign and also serve as a stop for limiting the telescoping action of the sections 8 within the sections 9.

The sign board can be readily removed by merely lifting the sections 8 from the sec tions 9. It will therefore be seen that one sign board can be conveniently detached and another substituted or that the entire structure including sign board and posts can be very easily taken down.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A device of the character described, com prising spaced lower supporting sections having pockets in their upper portions, a

sign, upper sections secured in spacedrela' tion to said sign, said upper sections having portions engageable in the pockets in the upper portions of the supporting sections for supporting the sign in displaying position and preventing lateral movement of the same and also to permit of removal or reversing of the sign when desired.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AD OLPH WALTER BUSS.

'Witnesses JOHN E. WALL, FRANCES THALE. 

